A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
生活
Life
从日常选择、人与人的相处，到面对变化时的态度，这些句子记录了不同的人对生活的理解。读英文原句，再对照中文，留意那些与你的经历相呼应的表达。
The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
极少数人在早年就与许多人绝交了。
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
一个花园总是一系列的失败和一些成功的对比，就像生活本身。
But sooner or later, no matter who you are, life uses everyone as its whipping boy.
但是迟早，不管你是谁，生活都会把每个人当作替罪羊。
Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.
当你的年龄比你所居住的国家还大的时候，生日可能会让你很不开心。
All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
我这一生都在接受死亡的教训，却没有人教会我如何变老。
Every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.
每一个抱怨都是一个你完全相信的小故事。
Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles.
也许我能活得久一点是因为我还没有赢得主角。
Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.
生活不是你所拥有的。这是你参与的事情，你见证的事情。
We are full of bread and gas, getting fat on the outside while inside we grow thin.
我们充满了面包和汽油，外面变胖，里面变瘦。
It’s amazing how long we put up with things we detest for the sake of a quiet life.
为了平静的生活，我们忍受了我们所厌恶的事情，这是令人惊奇的。
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
人生的烦恼就是美女太多，时间太少。
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
旅行就像婚姻。犯错的唯一方法就是认为你能控制它。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
幸福只能通过审视自己，学会享受生活中的一切，这就需要把贪婪转化为感恩。
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
没有人能控制你的幸福，除了你自己;因此，你有能力改变自己或生活中任何你想改变的事情。
If you wait for love to give your life meaning, you will go through life without both.
如果你等待爱赋予你生命的意义，你的一生就会失去这两者。
In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.
在这个专业化的时代，人们为能把一件事做好而感到自豪，但如果他们只知道这件事，他们就会错过生活能提供的许多其他东西。
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
美好的生活有三个要素:学习、收入和向往。
Find patience in the breath of life.
在生活的气息中寻找耐心。